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..:: The Logos ::..
By
Alan Schneider
The Logoic Plane is the Seventh, and
final, Plane of Ascension, one rarely directly contacted by human
consciousness, and apparently removed to the greatest extent possible
from the Physical Plane and senses. Paradoxically, this Plane is, like
all the others, never any more remote from personal
experience than our expectations, and our social conditioning, cause it
to be. In the words of Christ “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, and
all around you!” We simply have learned how to not perceive it
as it is – the manifestation and Loving gift of God. How did this sad
state of affairs come to be?
We exist on the Physical
Plane in a clearly manifest physical form – the body – and that body, in
turn, experiences both its internal world, and the external world – the
perceptual environment in which it is located for the term of
incarnation – through the action of the physical senses. Through the
complex interaction of brain chemistry and neurological events, we have
come to form the ego as the pinnacle of our perception on the
Physical Plane – it is this ego that “experiences” knowledge through its
interpretation of memory cross referenced with the ongoing inputs of the
senses. The ego is a social construct – when it is removed from
social involvement, it rapidly deteriorates to the perceptual level of
basic instinct, as does the sentience which it comprises.
The essential condition of
life in the ego’s environment, and one which it has evolved in response
to over all the expanse of existence on Earth, is scarcity of
resources. The rapid expanse of biology has always outrun the
natural capacity of the environment to comfortably sustain life, and
frequently to even sustain it at all. So it is that the ego
mirrors the condition from which it has evolved – turbulence –
and is almost never at peace, constantly seeking additional
sources of gratification, and on the lookout all the while for signs of
environmental threat, great and small. The clear evidence that it has
an essentially hopeless task in the face of the transitory nature of
life and the assured transition of death does nothing whatsoever to
blunt the ego’s enthusiasm for its primary task of identifying and
collecting resources – if anything, those realizations spur the ego on
to even more determined efforts along those lines! Such is the root
process of human awareness.
This basic human condition is
challenged by what has become known as Enlightenment – the
introduction to our root awareness of an extended sequence of altered
states of intuitive perception and higher consciousness. The Planes of
Ascension represent such a sequence – graduated incremental stages of
heightened, alternative perception that both depart from, and
expand upon, the experience of the ego and physical senses on the
Physical Plane of Conscious Expression. It is of the greatest
significance, and must be strongly emphasized here, that the nature of
our human involvement with the body of flesh does not change –
this is our perspective as a result of the Divine Gift of Karma. What
does change with the introduction of Enlightenment into our
condition is our experience and perception of that
involvement. As we become more familiar with the altered conscious
states of the Planes of Ascension through the Enlightenment process, we
learn entirely new, enhanced paradigms of experience, each of which
eclipses the last in terms of subtlety and expanded perspective on our
condition as observers of the totality of existence. That totality is
expressed as the Psyche – the sum total of all possible human
experience, both internal and external – The Kingdom of
Heaven is both within us, and all around us. We can know Divine Love,
Light, and Bliss right now, if we can but attain to the
experience of them. Seeking this experience of the Divine is what
the Ascension Experiment is all about.
Although we remain logged in
the body for the term of incarnation, and must conduct some
extent of survival oriented activities in consequence of this fact, the
nature, extent, and worth of these is heavily influenced
by ego interpretation. The ego tends to seek quantity above and
beyond quality in the experience of living, and has the greatest
difficulty in coming to terms with the contention of Enlightenment that
a small increase in sensory quality can more than offset copious
amounts of the same old crap – i.e. sensory appetite indulgence.
The very presence of the senses functioning in the service of the ego is
a recipe for addiction, plain and simple, and it is no wonder
that we are all so easily habituated to physical experiences.
Ironically, the more successful we are at this practice, the longer we
tend to live and, of the greatest evolutionary importance, breed.
The result of this process in the Post-Modern World is an exhausted
planet overrun by materialistic addicts seeking their next fix.
Quantity? Oh, yes, we have quantity in the extreme – what is lacking is
quality – quality of experience, quality of life, quality of
consciousness. Are we more secure? Are our families more secure?
Has the world become a better, more stable place, as the result of our
addictions? I think not.
Enlightenment represents an
alternative to addiction, and addictive behavior. When we choose to
turn away from the extroverted, appetite-driven matrix of the ego and
the physical senses in favor of the exploration of the inner world of
heightened perception, which can be accessed by such techniques as
meditation, we have taken the first step toward sanity and a sane
orientation for living. To those who would say such things as “There is
no God, and no Soul” or “the realm of spiritual study is itself insane
and unfounded” I would reply that the psychological template, the
archetype, of God most certainly exists, and demands that
there be a God, and of the Soul that there be a Soul. And the template
of the Planes of Ascension also exists, as the map of
Enlightenment, and without this provision present as the alternative to
sensory addiction we will become addicts doomed to perish in the
service of our addiction. Under those conditions, who would not choose
Enlightenment as the best hope of a challenged humanity? And make no
mistake about this – however placid our superficial circumstances may
seem to be now, these remain the essential human choices before us in
life.
Is there a God? This is the
crucial question confronting the whole of our race today, as we teeter
on the brink of worldwide socio-economic collapse. I can only speak to
what I have experienced – in some form, my consciousness
progressively passed through a series of symbolic expressions that
seemed more real than physical sensory perception, culminating in
the entry into a condition of omnipresent, super-radiant white light,
accompanied by the emotional experience of an indescribably blissful
state of Love and Acceptance, and the impression of the Presence of an
omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent Consciousness existing at the center
of all manifestation as the Source of all Love, Light, and
Creation. Was this God? Was this the Jungian Self at the center
of the Sphere of the Psyche? More to the point, are these essentially
the same experiential manifestations of the same root
process in human consciousness? I would have to say “Yes” to all
of these questions – The Kingdom of Heaven does indeed lie within us,
and all around us. We just need to know where and how to look
for it...
It would appear that the
entire mechanism of spiritual recognition is literally encoded in the
human subconscious mind – all that we need to know to commune with God
is right there, but in symbolic, archetypal form. Jesus
of Nazareth Himself is just such an archetypal symbol, and lives on
eternally in human consciousness just as the New Testament says He does,
with the full meaning that the Gospels give to Him and the ministry He
performed on the Physical Plane while literally incarnate. His true
major archetypal expression can only be found, however, in the Heart,
and Heart Chakra, as the pure expression of compassion and selfless
service. This is the way the code of Ascension operates – the levels are
largely progressive, and the basic tenets of one must be mastered and
accepted before the next can be entered. Like the Sephirah Daath, the
Heart Chakra, Anahata (or the Heart Sephirah, Tippareth,
if one prefers Cabala) is a Ring-Pass-Not in consciousness – try
as we will, until the lessons to be learned there are humbly mastered,
we can progress no further. This system was established in such a manner
as a precaution by the Logos, excluding the negative, contaminating
effects of the Lower Planes, by acting much like a sequence of spiritual
check valves – only permitting flow of certain kinds in either
direction. In particular, the Lower Astral and Physical Planes
represent sources of toxicity, but even the Mental Plane and its Thought
Forms are base and fallen conditions in comparison to the level of the
Heart Chakra, and the self-sacrifice and selfless love required for the
attainment of this state of compassionate perception. And beyond this
are three more even higher, more refined levels of expression,
culminating with the Logoic Plane. The presence of the baser human
motivations and perceptions simply cannot exist on the Higher Planes,
and will hold us in the Lower ones until we release the Karma associated
with them.
Let us begin the illumination
of the Logoic Plane. Although the Self of the Sphere of the Psyche is
represented as a unitary, undifferentiated dark spheroid at the
center of the Psyche, in at least three other corresponding paradigms of
conscious expression – Cabala, Yoga, and Christianity – the Logos is
conceptualized as a Trinity of form. In Cabala, this is
enumerated as Kether, Chokma, and Binah, the Crown
of Divine Consciousness, and Its Male and Female primary potencies,
respectively – and collectively referred to as The Supernal Triangle.
In Yoga, this Trinity is expressed as Brahma, Vishnu, and
Shiva, the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer aspects of God. In
Christianity, we have the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
or the Male Creator, the Created, and Uncreated forms of God. Both
Cabala and Yoga also have a Pre-Created condition, known as the
Ain-Soph-Aur, or Negative Limitless Light in Cabala, and simply as
the Brahman, the all-pervasive essence of God (that permeates
everything, but is not solely present as anything) in Yoga. In both
Cabala and Yoga, this Unexpressed Essence of God is conceived of as
being the pre-manifest Form of God that subsequently appears in
manifestation as the Creator Aspect of Divinity.
The Unexpressed Essence of
the Logos is analogous to the symbolic Portal of Chaos mentioned
elsewhere in these essays, and to the literal condition of chaos
in science and mathematics – a region of such extreme randomness and
disorder that nothing can be known about it, or beyond it, other than
the fact that it exists. Yet, chaos theory has been able to probe this
intractable condition to a surprising extent – yielding information on
bifurcation (breakdown patterns in orderly systems),
perturbation (fluctuations within the chaotic condition), and, most
importantly, strange attractors, the pre-manifest foci of
probabilities of occurrence concealed beyond the chaotic boundary.
The strange attractor represents a tendency for an event to manifest out
of the chaotic condition into concrete expression on the Physical, and
other, Planes. The Jungian archetypes are all just such strange
attractors – their nature cannot be known (since they lie beyond the
threshold of observation), but their existence can be inferred
from the archetypal symbols they produce in observable consciousness. If
one studies these archetypes extensively, an enormous and complex
hierarchy of symbolic forms and relationships emerges, one that is
supremely organized and appears to develop from one primary
form – the Jungian Primal Self at the center of the Sphere of the
Psyche. Although Jung did not venture to significantly elaborate on this
structure, I would defy anyone to say anything other than that it is an
expression of Divinity and Divine Manifestation occurring in
human consciousness. To this extent, even science has arrived at the
need for, and evidence of, a pre-created, chaotic condition manifesting
an orderly Creation.
Continuing to work with the
scientific paradigm, what we have thus far is an unmanifest, or
pre-created, or chaotic condition that apparently contains a vast,
orderly network of undefined generative elements (strange
attractors) that tend to materialize defined manifest elements
from the chaotic threshold onto the Planes of Ascension that we then
perceive as realities. No better example of the creative process exists
to my knowledge, and this process has a Creator as its point of origin,
albeit beyond the threshold of direct observation. However, when enough
meditation, and esoteric study of primal chaos, has been completed by
the Initiate, the Divine archetype will have come clearly into
conception as the Divine archetypal symbol in human
consciousness. At this point, we have attained the symbolic image of
the Creator, even if that Image is still rooted beyond the boundary of
chaos in the undefined Brahman, or Ain-Soph-Aur, or Holy Ghost, or
Primal Self.
This Creator symbol then
differentiates in almost all systems into either a Primary Male
symbol, Primary Female symbol, or both. Patriarchal cultures tend
to emphasize the Male aspect, and Matriarchal cultures, the Female, and
a few traditions even emphasize the Androgynous aspect of the Creator
Energy, but, in most cases, sexual differentiation with a preferred
gendered aspect is the norm. I personally prefer the Cabalist
Supernal Triangle, because it affords the Initiate three gendered
Paths of Ascension – Kether is the peak of the Path on the Middle Pillar
of Mildness, Chokma on the Pillar of Mercy, and Binah on the Pillar of
Severity. If we then transpose the terms Male/Extroversion
for Severity, Female/Introversion for Mercy, and, perhaps,
Androversion for Mildness, we have a reasonably clear idea of the
psychological valences of the Three Pillars in human consciousness. It
is noteworthy here that in none of the three cases is one
absolved of the need to forsake the residue of the ego prior to passing
through the Sepnirah Daath on the Monadic Plane, in fact, as behavioral
metatrends, extroversion, introversion, and heteroversion represent one
of the most deeply ingrained egoic valences – the primary
personal modes of filtering experience. This is why the Abyss of
Ignorance spans the entire width of the Tree of Life – Daath must be
reckoned with on all three Pillars, and this is why full Ascension is so
rare for the human consciousness. The most accurate depiction of
the Pillars would show them terminating at the Abyss of Ignorance,
rather than continuing directly into Binah, Kether, and Chokma, but this
is the portrayal the Hebrew patriarchs of old preferred. One is reminded
of the secrecy of the original Cabalist and Rabbinical doctrines.
Considering the great
challenge to the human mind (and the fleshly brain that, at least in
part, supports the operation of that mind) posed by the attempt of
envisioning the Presence of the Logos, it is no wonder that there is a
fair amount of confusion regarding the specific nature of the Divine
Precept. Even the Trinity is subject to this quandary. The Christian
Holy Spirit would seem to be most analogous to the Cabalist Ain-Soph-Aur,
or the Hindu Brahman, as the Unexpressed Divine Essence, and the Father
is an evident Creator form, but Christianity places the foremost
spiritual emphasis on the Son – Jesus of Nazareth – the founding
prophet of the Faith, and it’s most human representation. Hinduism
features a Creator-Preserver-Destroyer cyclical manifestation of
the Logos – with Shiva, the Destroyer, as the most human representation
– and this cycle essentially continues through these three phases
forever. Cabala places Kether at the peak of the Supernal Triangle, as
the First Sephirah, and the Divine Creative Action, with the male and
female secondary and tertiary forms of that Action seen as Chokma and
Binah, respectively. Here, the Act of Creation is paradoxically
expressed as the highest union of Tantric opposites, although Cabala has
no conception of Tantra, Kundalini, or libido, per se, again, a most
confusing state of affairs. However, the continued attempt at spiritual
examination does shed some light in this area.
It is quite probable that the
Christian divergence into the Father-Son-Holy Spirit
representation of the Logos is a reflection of the patriarchal structure
of Western culture that was incontestably the case then, and is still
the trend now, the advances of feminism notwithstanding.
Certainly, the Roman Catholic Church was an utterly patriarchal
organization, and this social entity literally gave us all that we know
of Christ and His life over the first millennium of its existence.
Under these circumstances, the conversion of the original Cabalist
structure of the Creative Action of Kether diverging into first a Male
expression in Chokma, and then a Female one in Binah, into an
exclusively Male Trinity is understandable, if perhaps lamentable from
the perspective of teleological accuracy. Christianity tends to be
obsessed with the image of Woman, i.e. the female nature, as the
Seductive Temptress who lures Man, i.e. the male nature, away
from God and toward physical pleasure and eventual moral failure. In
fact, the male nature is hormonally predisposed to seek women as
sources of sexual gratification first, and relational partnering
thereafter, while the female nature is predisposed to seek men as
sources of family life and provision for the family first, and as
sources of sexual gratification thereafter. Clearly, there is an
inherent conflict present in these two predispositions, and one which
must be resolved at the level of the Supernal Triangle, but, of the two,
it is the female nature that is most naturally in line with the
Manifestation of the Logos, not the male nature. I am quite sure
that this is at least one of the reasons why the Brahman is conceived of
as inherently female in Hinduism, even though the Godhead is
represented by the three male entities of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
I wish to give additional
attention to the Christian patriarchal tradition at this time, not so
much because of its teleological structure, but because of its
symbolic significance. The essence of Christianity is seen in the
Crucifixion, the Sign of the new Covenant between God and humanity.
Through the sacrifice of His Son on the Cross, the male image of God
“signed” this Covenant in His own blood. We as human beings can “sign”
the same Covenant through Baptism in the Christian tradition, acceptance
of Christian moral theory at Catechism or Confirmation, and then
pledging support of Christian principles of living thereafter, as
focused in the Sacrament. In this rite, the symbolic Blood of
Christ is imbibed as Communion wine, along with the ingestion of His
symbolic Body, represented by Communion Bread, or Wafers – and this
Sacrament can only be given to those Baptized in the Christian
tradition. All of this boils down to the symbolic image of the Blood
of Christ. This “blood” is symbolically represented in the
Baptism rite as the water in the Baptismal font, and the
Communion wine of the Sacrament, and is held to wash away the
original sin of the flesh (i.e. temptation to carnal
pleasures) through the power of the Crucifixion, in reality a human
blood sacrifice.
The blood sacrifice is
probably the oldest human rite, dating back to the prehistoric
hunter-gatherer economies of isolated proto-hominid clans. Bloodshed was
the common and inevitable consequence of a successful hunt, and is keyed
into the animal conscious recognition matrix of primary neurological
response modes that has existed and evolved over the billions of
years of animal existence. Thus, Blood, and the image of Blood, is the
Root Archetype of all zoological consciousness. At some point in human
evolution, our distant ancestors must have presumed that the gift of a
blood sacrifice to the God of the Hunt before, and after a particularly
successful, hunt was a possible means of communicating with that Deity
regarding our needs, wants, and wishes on the Physical Plane. This may
or may not nave been accompanied by the subsequent burning of the
desanguinated carcass – the burnt offering that completed the
communication process by sending the essence of the sacrificial object
back to the Etheric Realm in smoke and fire, leaving only ashes behind
that could then be processed as was deemed appropriate by the clan
elders.
The ultimate blood
sacrifice was one that entailed a human subject, and such rites
became lamentably common in history as civilization entered its
agricultural, and proto-pagan, phase. Both child and adult blood
and burnt sacrifices were common in ancient Egypt, Samaria, Assyria, and
Babylon, to name but a few of the original proto-pagan societies. Even
the ancient Hebrews practiced such sacrifices, but ceased the
practice with the Enlightenment of Abraham, who spared his son as a
result of a Vision of an Angel of Light who “communicated” to him that
his willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of devotion
was more important in the eyes of God than the act itself. What we see
here is one of the first historical examples of the shift in
perception away from the literal and toward the symbolic essence of
communication, and the birth of the concept of God as a symbolic form
that transcends physical form and social requirements.
The great power of
Christianity resides in its use of the symbols of the Crucifixion and
the Blood of Christ as the foundation of a new relationship with God –
the New Covenant – wherein the most ancient sign of life on Earth,
blood, is connected to the most Ascended manifestation of the Logos,
Love, through a human image of sacrifice. In this way,
the “blood” of the Baptismal Font, and the Communion wine, acquires the
spiritual potency to not only nourish the body, but preserve it from
physical and moral harm by linking the spiritual essence of that body –
the Soul – with God as its Source, through the symbolic sacrifice of the
Crucifixion – customarily reduced to its most basic expression,
the Cross. I have personally meditated beneath crosses of
several kinds, and have been amazed at the power of this simple
structure to draw in Divine Light and channel it into the Earth – it was
as if a great River of Love and Light was flowing into me
and through me. Indeed, the Kingdom of Heaven was within me, and all
around me, in direct perception at those times of meditation. For
this reason, I must affirm that the Blood of Christ, symbolizing the
Consciousness of Christ, is the single most powerful spiritual image
of them all – the Primary Archetype of Primary Archetypes – beyond human
consciousness itself, and a direct Path of communication and Communion
with the Logos in pure symbolic form that transcends mere
human words and deeds. When this Covenant is expressed as ministry
on the Physical Plane across time, we can see its power in the
present day by virtue of its primary symbol of the Cross represented
everywhere on Earth. Such is the power of sacrifice in
consciousness!
Is the potency of the Cross
as an image of male sacrifice related to the male portrayal of
the Trinity in Christianity? In the other two systems considered here,
Cabala and Yoga, the supposed Female element of the Trinity is either
specifically indicated (Cabala and Binah), or fundamentally
stipulated (Yoga and Tantra, Kundalini, and the Brahman).
Would a female Christ figure, e.g. Joan of Arc, have been an
equally potent, or even more potent, image? I suspect that the
Ascension process, driven as it is by some variant of the Kundalini
energy, is possibly more readily activated in the male organism
by virtue of the influence of testosterone, the primary male sex
hormone. This hormone is well known for fomenting aggressive masculine
behavior of all kinds, and when the male sex drive associated with it is
turned inward in the quest for Ascension, a very powerful force is
created. By comparison, estrogen, the primary female sex hormone, is
much less likely to produce outwardly aggressive behavioral expressions,
and more oriented towards the production of nurturing behavior and
emotional guidance and expression. Women can certainly seek and
attain Ascension in the Spirit if they are so inclined, but testosterone
biases the organism toward this activity, and the aggressive
seeking and developing of resources in general, whether spiritual or
otherwise.
The blood is infused
with testosterone in male individuals, and I believe that herein lies a
very subtle, and quite probably subconscious, rational for supposing
that such blood is inherently more “potent” spiritually than female
blood. Prior to the hunt in ancient times, a male animal was
sacrificed in be belief that the associated blood, which was frequently
ingested by the hunters to symbolically boost their proficiency, was
maximally imbued with spiritual power. If a sacrifice of purity was
desired (a much later human development) an immature animal was chosen –
one that had not yet begun to experience hormonal secretions in the
blood. Adult female animals were rarely sacrificed in any of the
ancient rites. Assuming that Christ was what He is portrayed to be in
Christianity – the literal Son of the Father God – He would have
been inherently fully Ascended, and His blood would have been of
the maximal spiritual power and potency as essentially the Blood of
God – the Omnipotent Consciousness of Creation. It is significant
that in all three of the traditions used as examples here, the Creator
Aspect of God is a male form, regardless of the cultural origin of the
tradition. This can be linked to the subconscious perception of
testosterone as a driver of the creative spiritual potency active in
Ascension. We must remember that, on the Physical Plane, the blood
is the most direct symbol of the essence of the organism, not the
Soul, which is a purely spiritual form. The powerful psychological
linkage of blood sacrifice, Christ, the Soul, and God accomplished by
the Christian Covenant has no symbolic rival anywhere to my knowledge,
with the possible exception of the Arc of the First Covenant given to
Moses by Yahweh, in the form of the Ten Commandments. I believe that it
is this underlying perception associated with the Male Expression of the
Logos that has accounted for the tremendous growth of Christianity and
other patriarchal faiths throughout history.
What is common to all of the
Trinitarian divisions of God is the concept of Divine roles of
manifestation, and these are all archetypal considerations. Creator,
Father, Son, Mother, Preserver, and Destroyer are all primary archetypes
of the Jungian Collective Unconscious region on the Sphere of the
Psyche, and I believe that these first radiate forth from the unitary
Self as expressions of three. Even the Monad is a collection of
four sets of three Souls, equaling twelve, and when the constituent
numerals composing twelve – one and two – are added together, the result
is again three. The three-sided triangle is the most inherently stable
geometric form, something the builders of old clearly appreciated as
evidenced in the Egyptian Pyramids – again, structures having four
faces of three sides each. These structures have proven to be the
most durable in history, indefinitely outlasting the ravages of time.
For the sake of scientific
accuracy and perceptual clarity, and out of deference to my personal
Ascension experiences, I am going to propose an essential formula of
Divine Consciousness now. Admittedly, this is primarily a reflection of
my own experiences, but those experiences have numerous parallels with
history’s accounting of many other individuals who have successfully
sought and attained full Ascension. And rather than confine myself to an
interpretive, subjective quasi-spiritual tradition, I will work
as much as possible with the Jungian psychological, scientific paradigm.
The root of human
consciousness is emotional, not intellectual, and the emotions
manifest out of the physicality of the body. That body is what we all
know we have in common as the anchor of our experience of reality,
regardless of how we may personally perceive that reality. For
this reason, I am going to postulate the first Ascended
Perception of the Jungian Self as the emotional state of
Unconditional Love and Acceptance. In a word, God Is
Love on the most humanly relevant level. Because Divine Love is a
feeling state, it has no dimensionality or location per se with
regard to the Psyche – it is simply portrayed as the dark sphere of the
Self within the Psyche at its center. Associated with this
emotional manifestation of Love are two additional manifestations that
do have exigent presence – Light, the second Ascended
Perception of the Self, and Creation, the third. In addition to
the Divine Presence of Love, I also perceived the Divine Light as God’s
primary external manifestation – an omnipresent field of intense,
super-radiant White light that was directly experienced. I believe that
this field of Light is the primary expression of both God’s omniscience
and Creative Impulse, which then descends down through the subsequent
Planes of Ascension in the more diffuse forms of successive
manifestations, after initially emerging as the twelve Soul families
of the multitude of Monads on the Monadic Plane.
The Essence of God,
corresponding to the Hindu Brahman, is the omnipresent vibrational
resonance of the Psyche and all its contents, a pulsation occurring
beyond space, time, dimensionality, and the Self, and yet within all of
these. The Divine Essence encompasses the entire Sphere of the Psyche,
and all that is premanifest beyond that Sphere – essentially
simultaneously present everywhere and nowhere at the same time, forever.
Vibration implies movement and flow – so Eternal Movement is another
aspect of God’s Essence – the Omnipresent Nonexistence and
simultaneous Eternal Movement interact to form the First
Motive Principal, and generate the Kundalini Energy
as the driver of all subsequent expression. This Trinitarian condition
represents the primordial state of existence preceding the Creation of
the Universe, the potentiality of God in pre-manifest form. From
this potentiality, God emerges as the proto-Being of Love, assumes the
Form of Light, and issues forth Creation. The state of Non-Dual
Awareness that is the perceptible Divine Essence can be
experienced as Buddhist Satori in deep meditation, and the state
of Divine Love experienced as Tantric Samadhi and Ananda –
Sacred Bliss. The combination of these two states yields Inner Peace
within the Self – the ultimate goal of the Ascension process, and one
that transcends the inherent turbulence of Creation. This is a
primarily logical, scientific explanation of the existence and action of
the Self as the driver of all subsequent events in the Psyche, and is
offered here as the theoretical foundation of the Ascension Experiment.
So it would appear that even
the pre-manifest chaos of the Divine Essence is replete with potency and
form, a potency that first expresses Love, then Light, and finally
Creation as the Active Trinity of the Self. In the journey of
Ascension, we retrace the Action of the Word, of the Logos, from
the extreme turbulence of the Physical Plane up through all of the
subsequent Planes, and hopefully unto the Monadic level, a perceptual
purgatory where we may eventually become spiritually pure enough to
travel on to the Logoic Plane. There we may experience the spiritual
dynamic of God in whatever Trinitarian Manifestation we may conceive of,
or perhaps all of them – and perhaps even numbers of other
expressions present within the Divine Precept. And beyond even this
state of Being, may be the ultimate expression of the Non-Dual
Manifestation, known to Hinduism as the Brahmin, and to Cabala as the AinSophAur,
both representations of the ultimate pre-formative Essence of Creation!
- With Love, Alan -
(CR2008, Alan Schneider)
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